Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Metrics and Success Measurement
Defining meaningful program and product metrics, translating business objectives into measurable outcomes, selecting and tracking key performance indicators such as adoption, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction, and establishing measurement plans and reporting cadence. Assess the candidate's ability to choose actionable metrics, set targets, instrument and interpret data, and use metrics to drive decisions and transparency.
Roadmap Planning and Sequencing
Designing and sequencing a multi year product roadmap to translate strategy into phased deliverables that balance strategic bets with near term revenue drivers and ongoing optimization. This topic assesses approaches to prioritization, trade off analysis between short term fixes and long term investments, dependency mapping, milestone and release planning, and resource allocation across products and platforms. Candidates should describe scoring and prioritization frameworks such as weighted scoring, impact versus effort analysis, opportunity sizing and confidence estimates, and explain how they choose a minimum viable release to establish market presence. They should show how to sequence work across years and segments, manage dependency chains, balance long term strategic bets with near term commercial drivers, and reallocate resources as information and outcomes change. Include plans for experimental validation and learning using controlled experiments, pilots and staged launches, and explain how success will be measured using key performance indicators and leading metrics. Finally, candidates should describe stakeholder communication and alignment strategies for engineering, design, commercial and executive partners and cover go to market sequencing and launch considerations for each phase.
Product and Business Impact
Assesses understanding of how technical decisions affect product experience and business metrics. Topics include marketplace dynamics, user needs and behavior, conversion and retention considerations, prioritizing work by impact, experiment and metric design, and connecting engineering trade offs to measurable product outcomes. Candidates should demonstrate curiosity about business drivers and the ability to incorporate product and metric thinking into technical planning.
Prioritization and Stakeholder Alignment
Covers frameworks and practices for prioritizing work, aligning stakeholders, and allocating limited resources across features projects and operational needs. Topics include impact versus effort and weighted scoring models, RICE and similar frameworks, sequencing dependent work, handling competing or conflicting priorities, negotiating trade offs with business and engineering partners, creating governance and escalation paths, communicating deprioritization decisions, and measuring outcomes to validate prioritization. Senior assessments include strategic resource allocation across teams and portfolios and techniques for building cross functional consensus.
Managing Technical Investment vs. Feature Velocity
Specific examples of how you've balanced shipping new features with investing in infrastructure, refactoring, security, and reliability. How you build business case for technical work, communicate necessity to product teams, and negotiate balanced roadmap.
Technical Strategy and Roadmapping
Covers defining, communicating, and operationalizing multi quarter to multi year technical and engineering strategy that aligns engineering investments with product and business objectives. Candidates should be able to describe planning horizons, trade offs between near term delivery and long term investment, and how strategic direction maps to architecture and platform decisions. Topic coverage includes migration and modernization planning, assessing current state and technical debt, sequencing initiatives and milestones, prioritization frameworks and cost of delay thinking, capacity and resource planning including hiring and team structure, vendor evaluation and integration, compliance and data considerations, governance and operating model, and execution planning with timelines and review cadences. It also includes balancing feature delivery, reliability, platform evolution, developer experience, and maintenance; making the business case for infrastructure and platform investments; defining success metrics and objectives and key results and measuring outcomes; risk identification, mitigation and contingency planning; and communicating roadmaps and trade offs to engineers, product leaders, business stakeholders, and executives. Domain specific concerns such as cloud adoption, business intelligence roadmaps, and marketing technology integration are included as examples of how technical strategy varies by context.
User Impact and Product Thinking
Demonstrate product sense by focusing on user outcomes and measurable impact. Explain how you prioritize work based on user benefit and business objectives, how you define success metrics and run experiments, and how you balance engineering effort with user value. Give examples of advocating for users, working with design and research, and making pragmatic tradeoffs that deliver measurable improvements for customers.
Lyft-Specific Product Problems & Analytical Approaches
Lyft-specific product challenges, problem framing, hypothesis generation, and data-driven decision making, focusing on experimentation design, metrics, and feature prioritization within the ride-hailing and on-demand transportation context. Includes product discovery, A/B testing, funnel analysis, and stakeholder alignment to improve rider and driver experiences and marketplace efficiency.
Product and Engineering Collaboration and Prioritization
Practices and skills for partnering with product management, engineering teams, and senior leadership to align priorities, make trade offs, and deliver customer and business value. Interviews evaluate how a candidate builds cross functional relationships, establishes collaborative planning and roadmapping processes, and translates strategic goals into prioritized work. Key aspects include balancing engineering vision and technical quality with product needs and time to market, advocating for engineering concerns such as scalability and reliability in leadership forums, ensuring engineers understand the why behind work, negotiating and resolving disagreements with product partners, and using prioritization frameworks and impact metrics to drive decisions. Expect to describe concrete examples of stakeholder communication, decision making frameworks, trade off negotiation, and how you represented engineering interests while keeping product outcomes central.